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VOICES | Issue: "Sciavo: Saved by the bill" November 01, 2003

Acts II?

What's happening in India's most-populous state may be simply normal kingdom growth | Andrée Seu

IF WATER BUFFALO-SHAPED UTTAR PRADESH WERE A country, it would be the sixth most populous in the world, after China, India, the United States, Russia, and Indonesia: 175 million souls and counting. As it is, the state straddles and is part of the northern rim of India, one-fifteenth of its land mass into which one-seventh of its people are shoehorned.

Forget Schwarzenegger, and China's first taikonaut in space. What hits the papers in heaven is what's going on in this parcel of South Asia that I had never heard of before last Tuesday.

Is it because Raju Abraham's report to our church happened to coincide with my own devotions in the book of Acts that I sat transfixed as the neurophysiologist-turned-missionary briefed us on a phenomenon, happening as we speak, that looks for all the world like Acts of the Apostles II?

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November 01, 2003, Vol. 18, No. 42

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